Posts by doesnothingwell 37 publicly visible posts • joined 30 May 2020
I did one for a friend whose new boss was ex military and being a pain. A floppy that installed a hacked command.com and rebooted the system after 10 min, then erased the floppy. Without timing the reboots one could never tell if it was drivers or hardware and would eventually reinstall windows. The whole business went under within a year.
I said I should use Linux for about 10 years but Windows didn't suck THAT bad. well 5 years ago it did, and I switched. The old windows machines whine they can't update and I just laugh. they behave like they have some value. Somebody tell Satya his horse is pining for the fjords. Beautiful plumage.
'Free RAM is wasted RAM.'
Tell that to my "xtg-desktop-portal" process which grows endlessly and after a couple weeks will use all my memory. PC gets real slow and is unusable for many minutes if I don't kill the process. So yeah I want 25% free memory until all my software learns to play mice, which is mostly never. I even replaced the whole PC with a R7 5800x and same crap, kernel and version updates don't fix it. Linux Mint Mate 21.3 16GB
Being from Ohio I can say that this is just grandstanding for the "permanently outraged" to get votes. Gun control would save more children, so would chasing the producers of CP (the FBI distributes it to trap users). The authorities are all outraged but not enough to actually stop it, just to keep their jobs chasing it with more "control .vs. privacy" rhetoric. Once the public is fitted with mind control helmets what will they outrage over then?
Dark Helmet: What the Hell am I lookin’ at? When does this happen in the movie?
Sandurz: Now. Whatever you’re looking at now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: Well, what happened to then?
Sandurz: We just passed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: Well, go back to then.
Sandurz: We can’t.
Dark Jelmet: Why not?
Sandurz: We already passed it.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Sandurz: Soon.
How is a large data center potentially putting strain on a wastewater plant?
Its always more complicated than it sounds, some tap water evaporates which cconcentratis the minerals remaining in it. These minerals will clog the system if not flushed down the dtain or left to evaporate on the ground.
I had one desktop PC that would lock up but not with the cover off. The case had a small cutout on the boittom and cold air from the A/C would get pulled across the motherboard. Covering the hole with tape was a temporary fix, I didn't have a spare board with me.
I avoid firmware updates they sometimes remove features for security, maybe I want to telnet locally into my ip cam. I have a Brother and it logs into the wireless router instead, then it's only one connection to fix. Ethernet is better but they don't put it on the lower models any more.
My nephew had a Toad for a boss (ex military), so I gave him a floppy that added invisible commands to autoexec then the floppy formatted itself. I told nephew to just leave it in the a: drive first thing and wait. The boss's computer would reboot every 10 min from then on, just long enough to try fixing it and then fail. Kept him busy for a few days.
The B series used 40v power bricks with 6ft cords that fed dc to dc converters internally. They used a pass through x-bus (roughly 50x2 0,1 pins) that went out both sides and you used a lever to lock them together. These things were horrible, they looked a lot like toasters, you shoved expansion blocks (more toasters) into a long chain on the desktop. I had to run parts to the guy who serviced them, I did the PC's.
Every server my old company built used cheap fans, they all went noisy or seized within a year. I saved a lot of time by using a syringe with a secret mix of (herbs and spices)* injected injected thru the rear seal while still running. I learned to check them even if no one complained and I was on site for other reasons. * 50/50 wd40 and SAE30 non detergent oil
Just like driving, if you hit every frinkin chuckhole and you wheels keep falling off then yes its the users fault. The damage get larger as the dangers increase and thats just like driving 101, don't hit things. Also sleep with your machanic, if they're good looking.
I once wrote a full screen trojan that looked just like a bios password prompt. After typing in the ******* it dumped you back to windows leaving a file with the password (muzette). Ten years later I still have it, but I don't have any morons still trying to keep password from their support person.
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